Recollections of Rosalie Ragucci-Cook

Songs my grandmother always sang: 

• “Lazy mary you’ve got to get up. We need the sheets for the table!”.
• “Take it off, Take it off, said the boys in the rear.” – Yes, she sang this very inappropriate song to me as a child. I’m glad I didn’t understand what it meant then!
• She sang me an Italian lullaby which I now sing to my baby.  We have no idea what the words mean or how to spell them… “Nina nonna mia pachina.  Bambolina day a mama.”  One day, I was singing this to my infant son and thinking of my grandmother.  As I started singing, he turned his head and looked into the dark dining room and smiled.  It was so amazing that I actually said out loud “Hi grandma”.  I know she was there singing with me.